Most of the info you’ll find on hiring is meant for large companies or startups with funding.

What if you’re bootstrapping?

While you’re not going to be competing with Google or Facebook for the same people, you still want developers that can do high quality work to help build your product.

The post that follows covers what I’ve learned about hiring high quality developers while bootstrapping Bidsketch over the last three years.
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Last month Bidsketch had the biggest increase in revenue it’s ever had.

Before that, the biggest increase in revenue came when FreshBooks emailed a million people and mentioned Bidsketch as a new integration. I got so many new sales notifications that day, I thought someone had hacked my server. It was nuts.

Last month’s increase in revenue was double that one.

Conversions and traffic didn’t increase, though. Nope, the reason I saw this kind of growth was because I redesigned my plans and increased pricing for new signups.

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How’d I Grow Revenue 3x in 2011?

So I decided to check out how most of my growth in 2011 happened. I was looking for anything that lead to an increase in signups, traffic or revenue. The blue line is traffic and the pink is revenue: Note: Graph from DigMyData.com One thing that jumps out is that revenue growth was been strangely [...]

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Going to Some Conferences

I’ll be going to the following conferences: MicroConf  (late April) - http://www.microconf.com/ I look forward to the conference all year. Mainly because there are so many startup founders like myself there and it’s a smaller conference which means you can spend quality time talking with the speakers. ISVConv (mid July) - http://www.isvcon.org/ Haven’t been to this one [...]

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2011 Review and 2012 Goals

So much happened in 2011 that it’s tough to cover it all but I’ll briefly go over the major events in this post. Bidsketch… Unfortunately, I didn’t write down my 2011 goals but I there were so many things that happened with Bidsketch that were amazing. Some of it was hard work and some of [...]

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